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/ 15 December 2011
News agencies who have set up cameras outside Nelson Mandela’s home in Qunu say they are not spying on the former president: the cameras are off.
World news agencies have voiced concerns to President Jacob Zuma that controversial regulations for tighter media controls may hurt press freedoms.
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/ 16 December 2008
Journalists and photographers at the Associated Press are withholding their bylines to protest management’s stance in contract talks.
A Chinese ship carrying a shipment of arms and ammunition destined for Zimbabwe was not in South African territorial waters, a Defence Ministry spokesperson said on Monday in reaction to a claim that the An Yue Jiang was ”passing through South Africa’s territorial waters” in violation of a court order.
French MPs on Tuesday approved a groundbreaking law against the promotion of anorexia, making it illegal to publicly incite excessive thinness. The Bill would bar any form of media, including websites, magazines and advertisers, from promoting extreme thinness, encouraging severe weight-loss or methods for self-starvation.
China has arrested nine monks for a bomb attack on a government building in Tibet last month, an official said on Sunday. Tibetan support groups warned that it was impossible to verify the claims because the authorities do not allow independent observers into the region.
Pro-Tibet demonstrators tried to hijack the Beijing Olympic torch-lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia on Monday. In a globally televised ceremony to mark the start of a five-month torch relay, the actress Maria Nafpliotou, playing the high priestess, used a break in the clouds to light the torch in front of the Temple of Hera.
The Zimbabwean government has banned e.tv from covering next Saturday’s general elections, state media said on Sunday. The Sunday Mail said that e.tv, South Africa’s only commercial terrestrial station, had not been accredited for the joint parliamentary and presidential polls.
From iPods to navigation systems, some of today’s hottest gadgets are landing on store shelves with some unwanted extras from the factory — pre-installed viruses that steal passwords, open doors for hackers and make computers spew spam. In most cases, Chinese factories are the source.
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/ 7 February 2008
John McCain, the irrepressible Senator from Arizona, stood on the brink of winning the Republican party’s nomination for United States president this week with almost half of the magic number of 1Â 191 delegates needed to win the race in the bag. McCain emerged as the clear front-runner from Super Tuesday.
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/ 5 February 2008
A funeral service was held in London for Bertram ”Jimmy” James, one of the few British prisoners to avoid being executed for joining in the ”great escape” from a German prison in World War II. James, who was 92, died on January 18 in Ludlow in northern England.
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/ 19 December 2007
At least 64 journalists were killed in 2007, making it the deadliest year in more than a decade with Iraq the most dangerous place in the world to report, a United States media watchdog said on Monday. About seven in 10 of the deaths in 2007 were murders, while the rest were combat-related deaths and deaths in dangerous assignments.
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/ 8 December 2007
Senior Israeli officials warned on Friday that they were still considering a military strike against Iran, despite a fresh United States intelligence report that concluded Tehran was no longer developing nuclear weapons. Although Israel says it wants strong diplomatic pressure put on Iran, it is reluctant to rule out the threat of a unilateral attack.
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/ 13 November 2007
A private pathologist hired by the family of a South African-born woman who died in police custody at Phoenix airport in the United States said she accidentally strangled herself — but he also blamed police for her death. He agreed with a medical examiner’s report that the intoxicated woman accidentally strangled herself on her shackles.
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/ 8 November 2007
Chad will investigate reports that at least 74 Chadian children were flown to France more than a month-and-a-half ago without their parents’ knowledge, a senior judicial official said on Thursday. A network of local human rights groups wrote to the public prosecutor’s department with details about the 74 children.
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/ 17 October 2007
Madonna’s landmark deal with concert promoter Live Nation marks the latest move by the music industry to find new ways to profit from artists as CD sales slip and the internet changes the way music is delivered. The deal, officially announced on Tuesday, gives the company an all-encompassing stake in her music.
An award-winning children’s book based on the true story of two male penguins that raised a baby penguin has topped the list of works attracting complaints from parents, library patrons and others, the American Library Association said on Tuesday. And Tango Makes Three is the first of 546 works on the list.